The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed the law on ratification of the agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the European Union on Ukraine's participation in the EU program "Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” (COSME) for 2014-2020.

Mexican and Ukrainian businessmen have formed a business alliance which includes representatives of energy, aviation, pharmaceutical and legal fields. This has been reported by the Ukrainian Embassy in the United Mexican States.

President Petro Poroshenko has signed Law of Ukraine No.1728-VIII “on temporary peculiarities of exercising state oversight (control) in the sphere of economic activity,” which was approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on November 3, 2016, the president’s press service reports.

The Cabinet of Ministers has canceled 367 resolutions and regulatory acts as part of the government’s plan for the deregulation of business activities in Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman said at the Wednesday government meeting, Ukrinform reports.

Swiss company Risoil S.A. will invest about $70 million in the completion of construction of a grain terminal in the territory of the Chornomorsk sea trade port in Odesa region. The information is posted on the company’s Facebook page.

Interpol in Serbia, has detained a Ukrainian agricultural businessman who appropriated 20 million hryvnias, or more than 800,000 US dollars, of state funds, according to the press centre of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

MP Volodymyr Aryev from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction will publish data on the Ukrainian companies that continue to cooperate with the Russian aggressor, the lawmaker said in a post on his Facebook page.

A Ukrainian delegation during the negotiations in Iran has received an agreement to send a delegation of businessmen to the country in May and June 2016, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister and Ukrainian trade envoy Nataliya Mykolska has said, commenting on the results of holding the fifth meeting of the intergovernmental Ukrainian-Iranian commission for trade and economic cooperation in Iran on March 5 through March 9, 2016.

Revenues to the budget from small and medium-sized businesses have increased by almost 32%, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated in the course of introduction of a new chairman of Kyiv Region Administration, Maksym Melnychuk on Wednesday, Ukrinform reports.